Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-03-11

The female suffrage bill in New York
appears to have been shelved.
Among the bills which failed was that
to make the commissioner of agriculture
cabinet officer.
Colonel Glider, who started out to cap
ture the north pole or die in the attempt
missed connections at Hudson Bay and is
coming back to think the matter over.
Ex-senator Jones of Florida is now at
full liberty to represent his constituents
at Detroit instead of at Washington but
the people of the United States will no
longer pay his counting expenses.
The commercial travellers of this coun
try owe a debt of gratitude to the United
States Supreme Court for its recent de-
cison that taxation of this class of tran
sients" by any State is unconstitutional.
The president sent in no appointment of
a new secretary of the treasury before the
adjournment of Congress. An impression
prevails that he will soon promote Assist
ant Secretary Fairchild to succeed Mr..
Manning.
The Minnesota legislature is discussing
the question of adopting biennial sessions.
The bill which is most favored is com
promise and provides that the matter shall
he submitted to popular vote at the next
election.
The Bell Telephone company is now
earning at the rate of % per cent per an
mum on its immensely watered stock,
which now stands at 225-a profitable
monopoly to its owners BIT not to the
public.
Several hundred town meetings were
held in Massachusetts Monday, and in
most of them the local option vote on the
liquor question was taken. So far as can
be learned as yet, the majority of these
towns voted not to license saloons within
their borders.
The Boston GlObC is anxious to know
"eXactly what the understanding is be
tween Mr.. Blaine and Senator Sherman
concerning the republican nomination III
1855" The understanding undoubtedly
is that each will support the nominee of
the party to the best of his ability.
The Philadelphia TdcgrGph remarks
that "if the republican party should nom
nate Senator Sherman in lSSS, there
would probably be much less wild excite
melit over the event than there was over
that of 1854, but there would be more re-
publican votes cast for the republican can
didate."
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, secretary for
Ireland, leaves the British cabinet ostensi-
bly, on the ground of ill-health but there
is little doubt that lack of harmony in the
cabinet is.t he real cause of his,withdrawal
Arthur j. Balfour, secretary of state for
Scotland, has been appointed to succeed
Sir Michael.
Henry Ward Beecher was probably the
greatest pulpit orator of the age. He was
a man who would have been leader in
any walk of life. In spite of the mistakes
and troubles into which his impulsive ma
ture led him he has been a power for good
in the history of this country for the past
generation, and the entire nation mourns
his loss.
BY the way the anarchists in Chicago
talk it would seem as though they were
afraid their condemned friends would moi
be hanged after all. Nothing will revive
public sentiment against these men 81
surely as the threatening talk against al
government society and law in which
their foolish fellow anarchists are indulg
ing
Jim" Matthews of Albany has succeed
ed in getting report published in certail
papers to the effect that his senatorial sur
porters are DESTROYS that the presiden
should provide him with some kind of a
office, so that his valuable services wi
not be lost to the democratic party. Mat
thews ought to 20 into business II
would make his fortune by free adverti'
ing.
1t transpircs that Mr.. Randall had pa
ticular reason for wishing to get his legi
lative appropriation bill through withor
examination. lie had incorporated IN
"A clause which would practically mai
the examinations conducted by the civ
service board non-compeutive, and TIN
provide an easy way of enabling the a
pointing officer to select any appllcal
whom he might for personal reasons pr
fer.
The Boston Record points out the som
what striking fact that the leading repu
lcan paper the New York TrtbuHc, t
leading democratic paper, the New Nor
IVOrld, and the leading "nondescript
the New York sun, are all down" on I
present administration. No honest pap
heartily and unreservedly supports
They cant do it, We know"
In Ellsworth, ILL.,. the other day, ba
of thirty-eigh. women marched TO t
saloon of man named McGrevy and n
ed him to close up his place and lea'
This he refused to do and they charged
the place, rolled out all the liquors Il
spilled them in the mud. 1t is not stat
hat the participants in the execution